Rising Tide Startups

What a great way to launch Season 6 of Rising Tide Startups, with special guest Josh Dittrich, founder of Branded Seller. Josh Dittrich (pronounced "D-trick") is a visionary entrepreneur, seller, investor, advisor, husband and father of five.  Most recently he built and sold two eCommerce businesses for 8 figures and was recently featured in a Business Insider article about how he did it. This has inspired him to write the book "Aggregator Navigator - The Ultimate Guide to Maximizing the Exit of Your Amazon Brand" to demystify the selling process of selling to an aggregator.  He is also the founder of BrandedSeller.com helping Amazon Sellers strategize and maximize their exit. BrandedSeller.com also provides stunning low cost video and listing content.

Learn more at Brandedseller.com

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Drawing from the rich well of 228 episodes over the past five seasons, host Kevin Prewett recaps the best business quotes and startup advice he received from the best guests on Rising Tide Startups.  Listen and take notes.  These tips are pure gold!

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As we near the end of 2021, while celebrating Christmas today, we want to introduce you to a really special guest, Veronica Romney.  Veronica works with online entrepreneurs struggling to get their teams dialed in. She is an Integrator personality to a T, and she loves managing people. She’s also been in the online marketing world since 2008, most recently working behind-the-scenes as a speaker, trainer, Director, and Chief of Staff for brands such as Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Pete Vargas, and BossBabe. Simply put, Veronica’s unique superpowers and professional background will help you actually take a vacation – not another workcation.

Learn more at veronicaromney.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Neel Parekh, founder of maidthis.com.  Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) with their cleanings. They’ve generated millions in revenue while having a fully remote team, and Neel is now on a mission to help others achieve the same.

Our special guest this week is once again in that incredibly important field right now, cyber-security, Brian Fritton, CEO of Havoc Shield.  Brian has built products and led engineering, design, and IT teams at companies with credentials such as Fortune’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies, the Inc. 5000 List, and Entrepreneur’s 100 Most Brilliant Companies.

He’s been the “guy in the hot seat” — responsible for defending a small business from cyberattacks — as a FinTech CTO at Patch of Land and the VP of Engineering for a critical political campaign and enterprise data science software maker. Brian brings the founder’s perspective to cybersecurity in an increasingly complicated and risk-filled environment.

Brian is originally from the woods of northwest Michigan and got his bachelor’s degree in e-business from DePaul University, where he spent more time experimenting with different businesses than going to class. He moved back to Chicago to start Havoc Shield after building his previous LA-based startup into a crowdfunding machine, having originated over a billion dollars in real estate loans and a successful exit. He’s married, has too many pets, and lives in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago.

Learn more at - Havoc Shield

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jared Hummel, President of Parqa Digital Marketing.  Jared is an experienced business leader with a history of building start-up organizations into streamlined, revenue-generating companies. As the President of Parqa, he leads with a strong financial background and is motivated by enhancing growth and finding solutions to complex operating and execution-based challenges. He enjoys working with company leaders to integrate digital strategies into overall business decisions – with an emphasis on nurturing clients and candidates through automation – to drive revenue.

We jump back into the world of online security with our next guest on Rising Tide Startups, Matt Spitz.   Matt Spitz is the Head of Engineering at Vanta, helping companies practice better security and keep their customers' data safe. Prior to Vanta, Matt has built and scaled diverse engineering teams through significant growth, cofounded and led Dropbox's NYC office, started a company, and played technical leadership roles in both product and infrastructure engineering.

Learn more at - https://www.vanta.com

We have a very special guest with us today... and if you watch close on youtube you may also see a cameo appearance of a little one!  Franziska Iseli's personal mission is to make a positive impact through entrepreneurship. She's also the co-founder of BasicBananas.com, Oceanlovers.com, TheDataPeople.com.au and TheBusinessHood.com.   Basic Bananas is known for their amazing marketing mentoring programs to support small business owners. Over the last eleven years they've worked with thousands of businesses from all around the world.

If you've detected a 'small' accent - that's because she's a Swaussie (Swiss born Australian). People refer to her as a bit of a rebel and super down-to-earth. She loves combining my creative and strategic abilities to grow and lead businesses.

In 2013 Franziska was awarded the NSW Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognising her innovation, creativity and philanthropic involvement. She's a big believer in using business as a force for good and has had the pleasure to facilitate workshops at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC to address UN's Sustainable Development Goals through entrepreneurship.  One of her big passions lies in ocean conservation and through OceanLovers.com, she's built a global community to help save our oceans.

She's the author of three bestselling books (Perception, Bananas About Marketing and The Courage Map) with a fourth one coming out soon.

She is also crazy about adventures and in her spare time loves surfing, riding a motorbike around the world, playing music, learning new things and sharing experiences with loved ones.

To find out more, please visit FranziskaIseli.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jeremy Ryan Slate.  Jeremy is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. He was named the #1 Podcast to Listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.

Jeremy's Website - Commandyourbrand.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Luke Van Der Veer.  Luke started a corporate career at General Electric and now he’s considered one of the leading experts of "Rank & Rent SEO", having one of his websites competing against Walmart and ranks #4 in the entire US. He has generated leads in 73 different niches and 48 states and is now enjoying a flexible lifestyle without alarm clocks, bosses or vacation requests.

Learn more at - digitalrealestatecoaching